Entangled photon polarimetry

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 27, 2011, Pages 26011-26016

  Altepeter, Joseph B ^a   Oza, Neal N ^a   Medić, Milja ^a   Jeffrey, Evan R ^b   Kumar, Prem ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTONS; POLARIMETERS; QUANTUM THEORY;

ENTANGLED PHOTONS; FRAMES PER SECONDS; QUANTUM STATE; REAL TIME; TWO PHOTON STATE; TWO-QUBIT;

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICAL DEVICES; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 84555218515     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.026011     Document Type: Article

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